Jim Yong Kim Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The water issue is critically related to climate change. People say that carbon is the currency of climate change. Water is the teeth.”

“World Bank is a bank that's focused on economic development and poverty alleviation.”

“Growing economies are critical; we will never be able to end poverty unless economies are growing. We also need to find ways of growing economies so that the growth creates good jobs, especially for young people, especially for women, especially for the poorest who have been excluded from the economic system.”

“Social media has changed the world forever. We're not going to go backwards. People are not going to accept being poor, accept being excluded anymore.”

“What I learned from my work as a physician is that even with the most complicated patients, the most complicated problems, you've got to look hard to find every piece of data and evidence that you can to improve your decision-making. Medicine has taught me to be very much evidence-based and data-driven in making decisions.”

“We will never end poverty if we don't tackle climate change.”

“Hope is a moral choice.”

“I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.”

“I like to change people's sense of what's possible.”

“I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.”